Hi and happy October!   It’s Alexandra and Monika, your Arts and Entertainment editors for the year. As we’re all settling into the flow of the new school year, we want to invite you to...

Hi everyone!      It’s Vince Kim, your Sports Editor for the 2023-24 school year! I’d like to welcome back all the sophomores and upperclassmen, and as for the freshman class, get ready for your...

Hello everyone! It's Hayat Brahmer your Student Life Editor for the 2022-2023 school year! I hope your semester is going well so far and that you continue to keep up your good work until the end of...

Hello everyone!    We’re Sanjay and Vince, your Sword & Shield Sports Editors for the 2022-23 school year. We hope you had an awesome spring break to get ready for the final quarter of...

It’s 2023 and a fresh new start for all of the Spartans at VPM! We hope to give you all some up-to-date information on all of the hot topics of this new year, from news on the Speaker of the House, to...

Welcome back, Spartans! It’s a brand new year with a brand new school name, and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome you to Sword & Shield's brand-new website.  Our school is changing not...

Living as an African American woman in the mid-1900s was extremely challenging. From being prohibited from entering a segregated church to being denied work, Velma Phillips faced the brunt of systemic...

We are now Vel Phillips Memorial Sword & Shield! We are in the process of changing and updating our webpage.  Excuse our site, while we get it ready for the new school year. Are you ready for a school...